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 PDF: Countdown to statehood
Alaskans voted in record numbers to approve statehood in August 1959 and selected candidates to face off in a general election. The School Board agonized over whether to build a second high school. Dreamers broke ground on the city’s first shopping center and said luxury homes would someday dot the slopes of the Chugach range.
Mortgage is paid on flood control work in Fairbanks
It is gray and raining and chilly and I want some coffee. I'm driving south from Fairbanks, wondering when I have seen a wetter few weeks in Interior Alaska. No past episode is coming to mind.
Cruising by ferry offers relaxing way to see Alaska
Although I love to travel by air, it's not as relaxing as a cruise. And in Alaska, some of the best cruises are on the Alaska Marine Highway.
'Thunder' film draws protesters
People with disabilities and their advocates protested the movie "Tropic Thunder" on Saturday at two Anchorage movie theaters over what they call hate speech: the words "retard," "moron" and "imbecile."
Cook's tour of Alaska
Two hundred and thirty years ago Monday, just north of Icy Cape in the northwest corner of Alaska, Capt. James Cook jammed two dinky, sail-powered, wood-hulled, surplus freight ships into the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean. By Aug. 18, 1778, he had managed to push farther up North America's west coast than any European had ever sa... continues
'Mrs. Santa Claus’ of North Pole dies at 91
FAIRBANKS — Nellie Miller, a North Pole woman known for decades as “Mrs. Santa Claus,” has died.
Tundra, trumpet swans on the mend at Alaska rehabilitation center
HOUSTON, Alaska -- Two abandoned tundra swans and an injured trumpeter swan taken in by the Alaska Wildbird Rehabilitation Center earlier this summer are now well enough to take their next step toward wild independence.
Women's fishing derby in Valdez is catching on
FAIRBANKS ? The Valdez Women?s Silver Salmon Derby is the Alaska equivalent of mall madness.
Steese Highway caribou hunt closes tonight
FAIRBANKS ? Enough hunters have bagged Fortymile caribou off the Steese Highway that the Department of Fish and Game will close the hunt at midnight on Thursday.
State ups number of permits for Chatanika spearfishing
FAIRBANKS ? Citing a small harvest and only about a 50 percent participation rate, the Department of Fish and Game will issue twice as many whitefish spearfishing permits for the Chatanika River this year as it did last.
Son?s aversion to blueberry picking challenges parents? patience
Why is it that children don?t appreciate the finer things in life, the things that build character and backbone, the things that save money, the things that make an Alaskan parent proud to be an Alaskan parent?
A pretty bit of England in Anchorage
I suppose you could say this wet, cool weather is as close to an English summer as we could get. It certainly hasn't seemed to hold back the garden of David and Edith Goodgame, who are famous for their English cottage-style borders of mixed perennials and annuals.
Getting rid of Japanese knotweed will test your patience
Add knotweed to the ever-growing list of cars, trucks, stereos, Walkmans, CD players, flat-screen TVs, anime cheesy martial arts films imported from Japan. Unlike those entertaining and useful products, this deceptively appealing invasive plant has grown deep, strangling roots in Alaska gardens.
Fearless bear joins the party
HAINES -- I know that you should never surprise a bear. What I don't know is if I did the right thing when a bear surprised me. I am pretty sure, though, that when a bear is close enough to your daughter to splash her, you would also wish your can of pepper spray were a hand grenade.
Oil companies warn hunters to be mindful of surveyors
BP and ConocoPhillips are asking hunters along the proposed route of their Denali natural gas pipeline project from the Canadian border to Prudhoe Bay to be on the lookout for survey crews in the field during hunting season.
Shooting of wolf pups on Alaska Peninsula criticized
JUNEAU ? Alaska state biologists didn?t disclose that 14 wolf pups were killed in their dens, and critics are claiming a cover-up ahead of a voter initiative to curtail the state?s predator control program.
Anchorage man takes over lead in Valdez Halibut Derby
It wasn?t the big one everyone has been waiting for, but Jan VanderVoart?s halibut was big enough to put him in position to win $15,000.
Get in line if you want an ?any moose? permit
Hunters who want to get a permit for the popular ?any moose? hunt on the Minto Flats should mark Aug. 7 on their calendars.
Nenana River Festival still on
It?s a little bit later than usual, but the Nenana River Festival, the longest-running whitewater event in Alaska, is still afloat.
You know it has been a bummer of a summer when ...
FAIRBANKS ? If you blinked, you missed it.
Deadline to enter Denali Road lottery nears
FAIRBANKS -- The deadline to apply for the National Park Service?s annual Denali Road Lottery is July 31.
Kenai fishing guide has court date over monster king
KENAI -- A fishing guide has admitted that he lied about where his client caught a monster king.
Red salmon surge on the Kenai
ANCHORAGE -- The reds are in.
Swollen feet, oozing blisters, missing toenails -- must be the Wilderness Cla...
John Lapkass may not have finished first in the 2008 Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, but he won the award for the wildest hallucinations.
Being with Bears - Alaska Traveler
July/August 2008My friend Nora pointed out the window of the deHavilland Beaver as it descended over green plateaus. “Bears!” she said through the crackly headphones.
From Paradise to Purgatory - Natural Alaska
July/August 2008A snowmachiner was pulling a heavy sled out of Nome on the Iditarod trail as I was headed into town. I hadn’t seen anyone in a while, so I pulled over to ask where he was going. “Boston,” he said, the wind taking his word back toward Nome.
Whale Watcher
July/August 2008Flip Nicklin was once the nation’s foremost whale photographer. His new job? Alaska’s whale ambassador to the world.
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